Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:12:39 -0500
eculp at unixmania.com wrote:

 
> What I am trying to do is compile an amd64 kernel, install it and
> see what happens ;) I can always go back to the generic kernel
> compiled in sys/i386.

amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64
and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to
pentium pro code  when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can
be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't
just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms.